Just for laughs! Payal dumps groom for a stroll...but will she live happily ever after?

Afternoon motorists speeding along the Rajiv Gandhi Bandra Worli Sea Link were stunned and amused to see a completely decked-up ‘shaadi ki ghodi’" galloping along the southern carriageway. Meet Payal, a glowing white mare, who had run away from a wedding to take a walk down the bridge.

The robust, four-year-old mare, kept galloping on the 5.60 km long road bridge with motorists slowing down to keep apace with the creature, craning their necks out of the cars, some clicking photos on their mobiles and managed to create quite a traffic snarl.

After nearly half an hour, Payal was finally stopped in her tracks, calmed and brought under control by a couple of Israeli tourists, who alighted from their vehicles and along with security personnel, slowly guided her out of the speeding lanes.

The marriage party was aghast as the bridegroom was left high-and-dry and fuming without his traditional symbolic ride to the marriage pandal.